American Gangster 4K 2007 EXTENDED Ultra HD 2160p

American Gangster 4K in best quality. Frank Lucas, a quiet driver of one of their Harlem crime bosses, is used to ignoring himself. However, after the death of the owner, Frank uses the situation for his own purposes, creating his own criminal empire overnight. His specialty is heroin, which he imports directly from Southeast Asia in the tombs of American soldiers who died in Vietnam. He considers himself a businessman and competes with other groups according to all the rules of a market economy, offering a better product at a lower price. Earning a million dollars a day and adhering to the rules of the game once established for himself, he becomes an idol for the whole Harlem, the stars of music and sports are proud of his acquaintance.

American Gangster 4K reviews
“I wanted to become rich. Rich as Donald Trump. And, God help me, I became, ”- Frank Lucas, one of the most talented gangsters and the most ruthless businessmen of America, explained his life. He is still alive, old but not decrepit, recently at the request of New York Magazine, who really wanted to listen to the conversations of these two old men about the old days, he met his sworn rival during the street wars. American Gangster / (2007), dedicated to his life, Frank Lucas liked.

What is not so surprising - most of the viewers liked the film, the fees exceeded 160 million. Ridley Scott took on this project, which was almost drowned in directors and financial difficulties, with clearly Oscar-winning intentions, and if Gangster did not receive nominations, it would be not only surprising but also unfair. Harlem of the 60-70s alone, raised by Scott, is worth a mass, and there is Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, as well as the story of Lucas himself - the black Cinderella with a gun who invented to import heroin into the United States in the graves of soldiers killed in Vietnam.

He did not come up with this immediately. Having worked for the godfather of Harlem Bumpy Johnson for about fifteen years (about which the Cotton Club, The / (1984) was also filmed), Lucas carefully listened to the boss's advice, watched intently, as he distributed the poor Thanksgiving turkeys and burned him enemies alive. When Bumpy died, 1968 stood in the yard. After burying the teacher, Lucas decided it was time for big business. He firmly believed in marketing - Brooks Brothers suits, direct contacts with the manufacturer, best quality, low price, creative approach. He went to Thailand, where American troops relaxed after fighting the Viet Cong, and personally went to the owners of poppy plantations. He arranged the delivery in the graves of dead soldiers. He began to sell the purest heroin in the history of street trading, inventing the brand "Blue Magic" - the corresponding inscription adorned each bag. He became a black gangster that the Italians reckoned with. He bought a house for mom. He collected one million a day from the streets, went to jail, surrendered half of New York's corrupt cops, and went ahead of schedule. He is a business genius, no worse than Chichvarkin.

The persecutor who put the genius behind bars is Richie Roberts, a cop with an unsettled personal life, the star of David, defiantly sticking out from under his shirtless shirt and a serious sense of justice. A thief should sit in jail. Point. For the sake of this principle, Roberts does not spare either friends or enemies, to whom, however, does not experience personal enmity. In the end, they, two smart men who believe in what they are doing, calmly compare approaches across the table of the interrogation room.

While watching this film, the feeling that in front of you is a picture that is destined to become a classic does not leave you. The incredibly thought-out picturesqueness of the Harlem of the 60s, calm as a rock of Washington, who played Lucas, and furious, like a terrier, Crow, who played Roberts, gateways, boxing rings, poppy plantations, and Thai strip bars - Scott managed to create a dish from some spices. A shot in which a flash of a shot snatches Denzel Washington's face out of the shadows will enter the textbooks. Ridley Scott twisted together racial, political, social problems, painted a portrait of the era and forced his compatriots to wrinkle their forehead over the story of a gangster who believes in American values ​​and the American dream.

However, he shot all this heroin chic, it seems, for the sake of one phrase of the old Bumpy Johnson, uttered before his death: "The system does not have a heart to stick a knife into it." Scott has been worried about this fact for more than a decade, so until the very end you expect Frank Lucas to reveal some secret - what motivated them? Why did he do this? And when it turns out that there is no secret, you feel cheated - not by Lucas and not by Scott, but by the common platitude of life. You can’t even think of anything here - the real Lucas said that 75% of the film is true.

After that, I would like to recall the picture of the stupid lines with the wives of the heroes, the majestic monotony of the game of Washington and with feigned sympathy to think that Oscar Gangster might receive, but he still could not become a classic.